Colon is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COLON in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a section of the large intestine
• a monetary unit of Costa Rica
• a punctuation mark (:) used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.
• a colon used in various technical and formulaic contexts, for example a statement of proportion between two numbers, or to separate hours from minutes (and minutes from seconds) in a numerical statement of time
• the main part of the large intestine, which passes from the caecum to the rectum and absorbs water and electrolytes from food which has remained undigested.
• That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]
• A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.
• the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
• the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
• the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
• a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
• a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
• punctuation mark (:)

Words related to COLON

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How to use COLON in a sentence

• They had less liberty than the colon, over whom the proprietor only had an indirect and very limited power.
• In time the ship touched at Santiago, Kingston, and Colon, but, fearing recognition, Jimmie saw these places only from the deck.
• The Prado stops just beyond the companion parks, La India and Colon.
• Diego Colon by now was used to us so, but the Cuba men displayed excitement.
• They wished to touch and examine our clothes lying upon the bank, but here Diego Colon interfered.
• But Diego Colon, coming in, said that it was much prized in heaven, being used for high magic, and that we would give heavenly gifts for it.
• Luis and I watched him tell the Cubans that he, Diego Colon, had never said that we three were among the highest gods.
• The Admiral had taken Diego Colon to Spain, and to Spain was gone too Luis Torres, swearing that he would come again.
• The colon was distended and very variable in position, probably changing its relations with the landmarks as it happened to be more or less filled with food or gases.
• After a while Bob turned slightly to the eastward, and about mid-afternoon they came in sight of Colon, the Atlantic terminal city of the great Canal.
• In other words, you should feel that the colon has been evacuated thoroughly.
• The colon simply empties itself thoroughly, and the evacuation is then complete.
• It assists the small intestines no doubt by giving their contents free access to the colon, but yet this aid cannot directly affect them.
• One of the great 13-inch shells of the Oregon, fired from four miles away, struck the water near the Colon.
• The comma alone seems to be the least formal of all, and the colon the most so.
• He arrived at Colon, took train for Panama across the laborious path where a thousand little men were scratching endlessly, and on the brink of the Pacific began his search.
• An abscess cavity 6 inches by 4 in dimensions was found in the vicinity of the gall bladder, between the liver and the transverse colon, which were strongly adherent.
• The Vizcaya was two and three-tenths miles westward from the Teresa, the Oquendo one and two-tenths miles, and the Colon one and four-tenths miles in advance of the Teresa.
• The Colon had run one and three-tenths miles, the Vizcaya about one-tenth of a mile less, and swerved to the left, bringing it to within one and one-tenth miles of the Brooklyn.
• The Brooklyn had run two and three-tenths miles, and was one and two-tenths miles from the Vizcaya and one and six-tenths miles from the Colon, which was running nearer the shore.
• The Oregon had sailed two and a half miles, and was one and one-half miles from the Vizcaya, and about the same distance from the Colon.
• The Colon had run twenty-six and one-half miles and was off the Tarquino River.
• It had sailed twenty-eight and one-half miles and was three and four-tenths miles from the Colon.
• The Oregon was four and one-half miles from the Colon and more in shore than the Brooklyn.
• The New York was nine and one-half miles from the Colon.
• Then the Vizcaya veered out to sea and the Colon kept nearer the shore, their courses being about seven-tenths of a mile apart.

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